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Great Model Railroads 30-Year Special Issue Archive 1991-2020 DVD-ROM Kalmbach PublishingĬomplete your collection with the Great Model Railroads 30-Year Archive DVD-ROM! Enjoy 283 full-length articles, each with large, detailed track plans, from the best builders in HO, N, and O scales. No prior experience is necessary, just the desire to have fun! Narrated by Michael Gross, actor and model railroad enthusiast. This exciting instructional video teaches you everything you need to know to build a model railroad layout. I walked in and saw the multi-hundred dollar price tags and it made me a bit sad but it was great to look around.DVD Train Video's About Model Railroading (201) Sort: Title A-Z | Popularityīuilding Your First Model Railroad DVD Kalmbach Publishing There was a Target on a bus route I used to ride and in that same mall was a train dealer who sold lots of O gauge stuff. One of these days though I really hope I buy some of the engines and cars I always wanted. I think I had the same trouble as my mind had incredible creations that I simply couldn't live up to and it was a bit depressing and discouraging.īut I found that video online and I am just severely impressed with some people's modelling talents or really most any creative building talent. The 'oddball' building was my first shop class project - a small house - but thats what I made it for even if it didnt really fit in. I was really into building models so that worked well. Later I got into HO and built a simple layout with a small town. My first train was a gift for Christmas from my dad - a Lionel set with a steam engine and 3 or 4 cars. I've moved around a lot and it just seemed a bit 'secondary' but I periodically think about getting some sort of layout back up. It's been a while since I had a train up and running. I gave the entire collection to him rather than trying to sell stuff piecemeal. A few years later I learned of a young man (19) who was very much into model railroading and in fact was planning a career in the railroad industry. Unfortunately, I had by that time become very discouraged and just didn't feel like investing the time and energy to rework the modules and reassemble the layout. I took care disassembling each of the 2'x4' modules and the 4'x4' corner modules by building them into enclosed boxes, and moved them to the basement of the new house. I eventually filled the basement of my rented house and had nearly completed my goals when my late brother and I decided to buy a house. It didn't take long for me to realize that between my failing vision and shaky hands I wasn't going to finish that dream layout! At first, I began with N gauge thinking that I'd achieve a much larger layout in half the space. Seriously, many years ago I was heavily into model railroading. Thank you so very much for mentioning yet another "rabbit hole" for me to fall into. H0 is still the most commonly used scale for home model railroaders for these reasons. It is much easier to repair works inside H0 engines than inside N. Because layouts are 2 dimensional and 2 times 2 is 4.Īnd engine interiors are 8 times larger than N, because the inside volume where the machinery is, is 3 dimensional, and 2 x 2 x2 is 8. Slightly irregular engines are unlikely to derail.īut with H0 scale, it takes 4 times the area to make the same layout as with N. Turnouts are reliable do not have to be constructed precisely and exactly correct. H0 scale (half 0 or twice the scale of N) does not have this issue. Problems with N gauge (or Z which half scale of N): turnout switches must be exact or trains will derail over the switch points. There's even room for side tracks coming off of other side tracks which themselves come off the surrounding oval. I run N gauge because you can put lots of switches and sidetracks on a 2' by 4' layout and still have a double track oval around the whole thing (the long side tracks in the middle of the oval).
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